Drive not compatible after reading 5th disc??!?

[djdave]

The 5th disc I'm trying to rip produces an error message that my drive is not compatible to read cd+gs. Why this disc and not the first 4?

[dave]

That can happen with an exceptionally Scratchy disc, or if the particular disc is poorly mastered

[djdave]

Thanks. I'm trying my Skipdoctor on it now. Disc 7-9 are ripping fine.

[dave]

let me know

[Brendan]

I just burned nine songs to cdg also. I placed nine songs in a playlist then clicked the burn icon. It burned the songs in about a minute. After about a minute of no activity in the task bar, I ejected the disc then put it back in the drive and the songs appeared. I clicked play,the first song plays fine but on a few i get the same error message saying "Incompatible Drive" The cd drive "HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GE20LU10" reports that it is NOT capable of reading cd-g discs. Would you like to attempt to use it anyway? Or would you like to learn more about what compatible drives are available?. It gives me a choice of cancel, Attempt or Learn. When i attempt, it will play the video fine but no audio. A couple songs actually plays fine when i "attempt". It seems the songs i tried to burn pitch bent did not work but the others i left at "0" work.

[Brendan]

I just burned the same songs with no pitch bending and every song plays perfectly! Did i miss this in the documentation??

[dave]

i am sure the disc did NOT burn correctly when you ejected it. pitch bending should definitely work during burning, should not affect the result at all. try again?

[Brendan]

Okay, ill try again and let you know.- Thank you

[Brendan]

Burned another cdg tonight. I placed 11 songs in a playlist, some pitch bent and burned it. 5 out of the 11 songs work. The other 6 have video but no audio I probably have a piece of shit burner Some of the songs that burned successfully were pitch bent. Nothing happened in the task bar for 5 minutes before i touched it. I have a LG Light scribe external drive. Any thoughts? Could itunes be interfering? It does pop up when i insert a cd. - Cheers

[dave]

stick a working disc in and once it shows up go help->send log file
also include your system profiler report on Disc Burning.

[Brendan]

I was just burned the cd again with no pitch bending, the cd burned perfectly.

[dave]

i really believe that pitch bending can't possibly have anything to do with it, unless i've recently broken that some how, which i doubt. as you said before, "Some of the songs that burned successfully were pitch bent".

can you send that info?

[Brendan]

Yes, i will send the info this weekend- Thank you

[Brendan]

Okay, sent the files requested via email. Thank you

[dave]

ok, from the log:

Code: Select all

-------------------------------
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GE20LU10
Device does NOT support reading CD+G
Device does NOT support writing CD+G
Device supports DVD-ROM
Device supports DVD-RAM
Device supports DVD-R
Device supports CD-RW
Device supports CD-R
Device supports CD-ROM
-----------------------------

and from that, i see you have the "GE20-LU10", and then i look on the Drive Comatibility page:

GE20-LU10 can read but apparently only burns 2 tracks and fails after that